We don't live in Disneyland. We live in blood and in time, not in Fantasyland. We live in a tragic world.

More and more, money is becoming a religion.

Aggressive capitalism leads the world, and we can see the results, especially in Europe: more poverty for the vast majority, and more riches for a few.

Technology is an extension of our hands and our feet, not our spirit.

I initially studied literature [in France], and then I went to cinema school. I discovered the Cinematheque, and saw not only action movies and westerns, but also lots of serious movies.

We saw what happens with Bolsheviks. It was another catastrophe. I don't have the solution. The moviemaker can ask questions but not give solutions.

Many years ago making movies was something. It was the major entertainment just to go to the cinema, once, twice a week. At the time, something like 400 million people went to the movies.

Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians.

We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

Everyone knows Cristiano Ronaldo is better than Messi, not only me, but for some it's hard to recognize that.

No man can lose what he never had.

The power of imagination is infinite.

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.

One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.